Parking Industry Fun Facts

Today is the Queens birthday! To make this even more special: it's her last birthday as a queen; she announced earlier this week that she would abdicate on April 30th. Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands, turned 75 today. Let's celebrate with some parking facts!

Did you know that…

In the UK are approximately 60,500 people working in the parking industry (source: nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk)

18,000 of these people work on-street

24,500 work off-street

10,000 people work in offices

3,000 have a manager’s position

90% of UK parking professionals are male and 82% is white (source: nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk)

There’s an episode of the series Seinfeld called “The Parking Garage” that entirely takes place in a parking garage. For the whole episode, the main characters never leave the garage because they forgot where they parked

Ronny Wechselberger, a German stunt pilot, recently earned his place in the Guinness Book of World Records for his reverse parallel parking skills (Watch the video!)

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